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Collectively branded as Pocket Change, the ANS publishes new content frequently on its blog, in The Planchet podcast, as well as videos. Back-issues of ANS Magazine are also available.

Robyn Le Blanc Receives ANS Chairman’s Fellowship to Study Roman...
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Robyn Le Blanc Receives ANS Chairman’s Fellowship to Study Roman Ceramic Banks 
By The American Numismatic Society

The ANS instituted the Chairman’s Fellowship for Numismatic Research in 2023 to support “qualified graduate students or scholars pursuing serious numismatic research projects that are expected to result in academic publication.” The inaugural recipient was Melissa Ludke, for her project on “Cosa and Socio-Economic Interactions among Middle Republican Cities in Central and South Etruria.” 

Robyn Le Blanc teaching. Courtesy Martin Kane, UNC Greensboro.

This past October, the selection committee awarded a second fellowship to Robyn Le Blanc, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, for her study “Reevaluating Decorated Roman Ceramic Banks.” We caught up with…

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Long Table 180. Nomos and Nomisma: The Monetary Policy of...
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Long Table 180. Nomos and Nomisma: The Monetary Policy of the Greek City, Part II

In the Hellenistic period, all matters that concerned coinage were regulated by laws and decrees, and all decisions that…

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Numismatics at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Annual Meeting
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Numismatics at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Annual Meeting
By David Yoon

Attending the 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (New Orleans, April 17–21, 2024), I was struck by…

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Money Talks: Barbarian Imitations and Copies of Roman Imperial Denarii
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Money Talks: Barbarian Imitations and Copies of Roman Imperial Denarii

with Arkadiusz Dymowski (Independent Researcher, Poland) and Kyrylo Myzgin (University of Warsaw, Poland)

Many Roman Imperial denarii found their way…

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Long Table 178. Roman Provincial Coinages of Hispania: Bronze Coins...
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Long Table 178. Roman Provincial Coinages of Hispania: Bronze Coins for the Daily Life

The coins minted by the cities of Hispania between ca. 44 BC and AD 54 are Roman provincial coins. Minted in bronze for local…

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Father’s Two Zuzim 
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Father’s Two Zuzim 
By Jared Goldfarb

With Passover nearly upon us, I cannot help but trawl the Passover seder for numismatic connections. Luckily said, a connection…

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Long Table 177. The Imperial Coinage of Nerva, Part 2:...
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Long Table 177. The Imperial Coinage of Nerva, Part 2: Nerva, the Senate, and the People of Rome and Italy

In the second of a three-part series that explores the messages, audiences, and relative frequencies of Nerva’s imperial coinage…

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Art Medals: Where Obverse and Reverse May Converge
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Art Medals: Where Obverse and Reverse May Converge
By Jesse Kraft

Figure 1. The obverse and reverse of a 1793 large cent are clearly discernable from one another, and follow guidelines…

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Long Table 176. The Royal Maundy-Ceremony and Coins
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Long Table 176. The Royal Maundy-Ceremony and Coins

The Royal Maundy is a historic ceremony with origins in the New Testament, held on the Thursday before Easter…

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Images of Cataclysm and Renewal on British Celtic Coins
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Images of Cataclysm and Renewal on British Celtic Coins
By Ryan Sullivan

Figure 1. Catuvellauni gold stater depicting horse, chariot wheel, and astral imagery. (ANS 1944.100.78360)

British Celtic coins are perhaps best-known for…

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Long Table 175. Elaiussa Sebaste: Its Mint and Coin Finds
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Long Table 175. Elaiussa Sebaste: Its Mint and Coin Finds

Excavations in Elaiussa Sebaste, an active mint from at least the beginning of the first century BCE to the…

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Long Table 174. Nomos and Nomisma: The Monetary Policy of...
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Long Table 174. Nomos and Nomisma: The Monetary Policy of the Greek City

In the Hellenistic period, all matters that concerned coinage were regulated by laws and decrees, and all decisions that…

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More Republican Issues Added to RRDP
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More Republican Issues Added to RRDP
By Alice Sharpless

Figure 1. ANS 1969.83.35. Didrachm, RRC 22/1 (265-242 BCE). 6.54g. Gift of E.R. Miles. Control marks: Club/ΘΘ.

Another batch of Roman…

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